Bumper Rules on a U Bot Chassis

[ChuckDickerson]

Originally Posted by dradel

I find it hard to understand why teams are having so much problem understanding the bumper rules?

As do all of your friendly robot inspectors every year (except last year). Bumpers should be easy. There are several pages of bumper specifications and illustrations that have changed little over the last several years. In my experience as an LRI most bumper issues stem from teams not thoroughly reading and comprehending the bumper specifications in the beginning (at kickoff) and including them in their robot design from the start. Way too many teams put bumpers off until a build season week 5 or 6 after thought and then try to figure out how to make bumpers fit on their now locked in stone robot design instead of considering them a design constraint and including them in their robot design from the beginning. Even worse are the teams that walk in the door at their first competition with no bumpers and think they are going to design, build, and properly attach their bumpers at competition with materials they don't even have.